Gustave Courbet – Inner Surfaces

An Elusive Realism: Gustave Courbet’s Les Cribleuses de blé (The Grain Sifters).

Courbet, Ornans and 1854–55 When Gustave Courbet painted Les Cribleuses de blé (The Grain Sifters) in 1854–55, he was in his mid-thirties and had already become one of the most contentious figures in French painting. Born in 1819 at Ornans, a small town in the Doubs close to the Swiss border, Courbet came from aContinue reading “An Elusive Realism: Gustave Courbet’s Les Cribleuses de blé (The Grain Sifters).”